Happy May 2025: Flee Betrayal, Flee Hypocrisy and Sabotage for a Peacefully Healthy Environment for Global Entrepreneurship!
Happy Workers’ Day, 2025
By Benjamin Pulle Niriwa. In Peace, Health and Entrepreneurship. 01.05.2025.
Betrayal refers to a situation in which two or more people who love, trust and keep each other’s secretes breached these bonds that previously existed between them. At this point one of them who used to love and trust has grown “invisible hard shells” (McCoy, 2025; Figure 1); but the other person(s) is/are not aware, so they still keep trusting them by telling them secretes, entrusting them with their properties and even loved ones.
No one should be interested in one party state! When the options are many and not predictable, any party that wins election would be extra careful and do not take the electorates for granted. That is one of the major reasons why NPP lost the 2024 general elections with a huge margin. With the current issues surrounding the suspension and possible removal of the suspended Chief Justice, NPP needs to be careful and put national interest FIRST instead of partisan interest. If they do not take time, they might rather end up making most of their supporters lose interest in the party.
Instead of portraying behaviors perceived as trying
to sabotage the government, they should rather resort to behaviors in which their “ranking
member on Health Committee of Parliament” was seen and heard advising some health workers
of the Tamale Teaching Hospital to rescind their decision to demonstrate,
because of public interest (GA/AE., 2025).
This article was researched to answer the following objectives, to:
1. 1. Describe what betrayal is?
2. 2. Identify some issues of concerns caused by betrayal.
3. 3. Assess how political manipulation of Ghana’s Judiciary betrays national trust.
What Are the Main Issues of Concerns?
There is no economy without a healthy public sector working force! Whatever every individual does on daily basis all contribute to help build every economy in every nation and globally. Every worker on earth really needs to be appreciated! At the peak of COVID-19 pandemic when curfews or lockdowns were used as a measure for preventing spread of the virus, the world economy almost collapsed (AlNujaidi, 2022; Wang, 2021)! But the curfews in most nations were not even up to a month. That clearly revealed how important the public sector workforce is! Whatever one does is very important! The most important thing is how you do it, your reason behind what you do, and why you do it? Everyone has a dream in life, but it is not every dream that is an acceptable one.
A dream that puts undue pain suffering on another cannot be accepted as a good dream. Fraudsters around the global are continuously devise new ways according to the constant fast changing world; but they also refer to what they are doing as their dreams. Their dreams to make quick money by using their intelligence to deceive others and collect their moneys or material gifts are not accepted. The only difference between their activities and armed robbers is because they do not openly murder others like most armed robbers do. But they all have the same dream of making quick money using wrong ways. Behaviors such as these are serious betrayal of the common good of every society globally (Brooklyn, 2024; Francismay, 2024; Holm, 2024).
The consequences of living a dream that is not legally accepted are numerous! Some of these fraud boys and armed robbers are seen exchanging fires with even the national security, the case of a criminal fighting the state. In most cases some of these criminals are murdered at a very tender age due to their get rich quick through all foul means strategy. What is disturbing is that, because of their activities some innocent people are also mistakenly lynched; just because they are seen holding a gun for self-protection (Brooklyn, 2024; Inno, 2024).
You might not pick a gun to attack anyone for money! You might not deceive anyone using your intelligence to take away what rightly belongs to the person. But there are certain behaviors that when we exhibit at our various work places, can be very damaging too. Most of those chameleonic behaviors are silent killers contributing to increased suicides. Though the working force is obviously very important for building global economies, there are some behaviors that must be permanently buried if we prioritize the common good of every working environment.
The modern-day public sector is increasingly full of lies! These lies are mostly targeted at unsuspecting victims when there is a competition for a particular position in the job. The Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) in Ghana, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, was almost removed from office because of lies. But after surviving those lies there was still attention on him! Some members of the previous Former President Akufo-Addo’s government were still threatening to remove him from office. With a change of government, most Ghanaians thought that he was finally free from the threats of being removed. Far from the case, there were rumors in January this year that he was removed and some police officers were allegedly jubilating. When he was finally removed in March 2025, some police officers allegedly jubilated (Kubi, 2024; Ola-Morris, 2025; Seshie, 2025).
From my experience of working in the public sector for over 22 years, people are not hated at the work place because they are bad or wicked. They are actually hated because of their good hearts which make “competitors” perceive them as their threats. When they noticed that it is difficult to compete with you without destroying your image, they would start lying against you and start having secret meetings. The moment you notice that your colleagues have been having secret meetings about the work, it is a clear sign that you might be targeted as a threat to them. It is also a clear sign that they have been spreading falsehoods against you. What should you do? So, you should not hate them but you must be very careful about them. Born at the days when being good pays, nowadays being good rather makes you a target for sabotage (Pleasant, 2018)!
Maltreating a good person because of his/her good heart is tantamount to betraying the whole world! The world is yearning for people with pure hearts who could be trusted, if people with good behaviors are targeted as threats, then it indirectly discourages our young ones.
Betrayal and hypocrisy have similar attributes and can be used interchangeably by some people. For a peaceful and effective or efficient working environment, people must flee these twins! We must be careful with those do dirty competition at the work place! They smile with you nicely, and behind your back they hold secret meeting; that should tell you that the person was giving fake smile. It is at the secret meetings most lies are peddled against targeted victims, if the person is not a threat to you why hold secret meeting?
The suspension and possible removal of the Former Chief Justice of Ghana has revealed a serious betrayal of national trust. Party’s interest is seen being valued than the national interests. This must not be the case; national interest rather should be valued above any other interest (Kobi, 2025).
How Does the Political Manipulation of the Supreme Court by Former President Akufo-Addo Revealed National Betrayal?
Some of the minority members of parliaments (MPs) are heard talking about the suspension of the Former Chief Justice as a possibility to destroy the democratic gains of Ghana (Laryea, 2025). Yet these same MPs were absolutely silent when Former President Akufo-Addo was packing the Supreme court with Judges who were suspected as NPP associates. Former President Akufo-Addo alone in just 8 years has appointed eighteen (18) Supreme court judges the highest ever appointed by any President in Ghana. It was revealed that though Former President Flt. Lt. J. J. Rawlings for longer, he appointed only eleven (11) Judges. Then Former President J A Kufour appointed seventeen (17) Judges too, with President Mahama appointing only four (4) of them in his first term (MyNewsGH, 2023; Savage, 2024).
So, from history, the NPP is really noted for always flooding the Supreme court any time they are in power. This is rather what threatens Ghana’s democracy, not when a Chief Justice is suspended after the discovery of a prima facie case. The NPP MPs, not seeing anything wrong with the bias packing of the Supreme court; but rather see the suspension of the Former Chief Justice after the determination of a prima facie case is questionable. No political party in the history of Ghana’s fourth republic has manipulated the Judiciary than the NPP’s government, especially the one led by Former President Akufo-Addo (Hameed, 2025; Ghartey, 2025; MyNewsGH, 2023). They also claimed that because the Former Chief Justice is a female, removing her from would discourage women from seeking top positions in the country.
If they are aware of this, then one would wonder why they threatened to remove the Former EC’s chairperson whilst in opposition, and after winning they really removed her (Kumsah, 2018; Frimpong, 2018)? Contrary to their false claim that the President did not follow due process in the suspension of the CJ, the President has already indicated his intension to follow legal process to decide whether the Former CJ deserved to be removed or not. This intention of the President was first made known “on Tuesday, March 25, 2025” before an application was sent to the Supreme court falsely claiming that the President did not follow constitutional procedures with respect to the petitions submitted to him (Adjei, 2025; Aryee, 2025; Mensah, 2025).
The application alleged that the President did not allow the CJ to response to the petitions. But the President has already given ten (10) days to the CJ to do so and she has later done that too (Adjei, 2025). So, where is the violation again? After the determination of the prima facie case, the President did not also just remove her from office. He has set up a five-member committee to investigate the allegations that were raised against her. He has not yet taken any action against her; he is still waiting for the investigation to inform him on what to do next. Where is the constitutional violation?
If the President has already addressed all the issues that were raised in the application intended to injunct the removal of the Chief Justice, then that application still lying at the Supreme court is clearly baseless and hold no water.
The current call by some top leaders of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) could be seen by many Ghanaians as a betrayal of national trust! What is even embarrassing is their threats to go to court just because the President allegedly did not publish a constitutional instrument or C.I. on the CJ removal process. The GBA leaders and some few of their members talking about the “constitutional instrument” and not interested in whether there was a prima facie case or not is tantamount to betraying the trust the nation repose in them. If the necessary legal processes are duly followed, except that the alleged C.I. is not published, as legal body of the nation; what the best they could have done to advice or suggest that the President do so. Their threats to go court is not professional, but could rather be perceived as being partisan (Adams, 2025; Distinguished, 2025; Incoom, 2025).
There were serious issues capable of clipping trust in the Judiciary but they were silent and nowhere to be found. Those issues especially decisions and judgment that were made by some Judges of the Supreme court were serious issues capable of tarnishing the good image of the Judiciary. During that time Ghanaians saw the Presiding judge preventing the EC chairperson from testifying in court, which was later condemned by some law experts and citizens who are knowledgeable and understand the consequences of such a behavior (Anim-Appau, 2023; Pulle a, 2021; Pulle b, 2021). But the GBA was none existence!
The GBA has also been silent when Former President J. A. Kufour and Former President Akufo-Addo flooded the Supreme with NPP-associated Judges. Such appointments compromised the neutrality of the Apex court that must be the hope of every Ghana. What is even very worrying and indeed also very embarrassing is the fact that, this same suspended Chief Justice that they are defending has presented five (5) Judges for appointment to the Supreme court without following constitutional laid down procedures (Gabs., 2025). If this same GBA is blind about the constitutional violation by this suspended CJ, it highly mesmerizing and outrageous for them to be threatening the President with court action for an alleged constitutional violation.
One worrying trend in the public sector that needs to be condemned is the increased politicization of important state institutions! During the era of Former President Akufo-Addo, most public institutions were severely politicized especially the judiciary, the security sector, and the electoral commission. These political interferences were serious issues that should have been condemned, unfortunately nothing was done. In the history of Ghana’s fourth republic, as it currently stands, no President has packed the supreme court with Judges than Former President Akufo-Addo (MyNewsGh., 2023).
His Excellency Former President Akufo-Addo has also done his best for Mother but he has also left Ghana with weakest institutions than any other President in the fourth republic. It is not only about the Former President piling the Supreme with NPP associates who are described as “Kwasi Anin-Yeboahs”; the time that normally did that is serious issue capable of creating mistrust in the Judiciary. The consequence of him piling the Apex court of the land with his associates were exposed in the 2020 election petition where certain key decisions such as allowing the EC chair to be subpoenaed have ruled in bias (Anim-Appau, 2023; MyNewsGH, 2023; Savage, 2024).
What was even worrying is how those that he was packing at the supreme court were perceived. The next serious issue is the time at which he did most of these appointments. That is why some people perceived his actions as a way trying manipulate the judiciary (MyNewsGh., 2023). Immediately after President Mahama was sworn in, most Ghanaians would agree with me that some NPP members were always running to the supreme with any small issue; which further confirm the perception that the supreme court was manipulated. Behaviors such as these are also tantamount to betraying national trust.
What Are the Types of Betrayals?
The following are some of the types of betrayals.
Betrayal Out of Curiosity: The first betrayal by the first family was out of curiosity! The serpent after turning into a snake, made use of the curiosity nature of humans to deceive Eve to eat the forbidden.
Deliberate Betrayal: Betrayal is also done deliberately for a purpose! This is very common amongst romantic friends. When one no more loves the partner, sometimes they deliberately cheat continuously as a form of betrayal with the intension to force the person go away. Though it is wrong to do that, some partners who are no more interested in a relationship can also be deliberately stealing from you. Any betrayal that is done in order to achieve a particular purpose is a deliberate betrayal!
Betrayal as a Result of Greed: Being greedy encourages betrayal too. In some marriages this type of betrayal can be very common! Cheating on one’s partner in marriage is a form of greed betrayal, especially when the person is able to satisfy you well in bed. During sexual intercourse, both partners need to be satisfied! So, it is the duty of both lovers to satisfy each other in turns; if one of the refused or stopped just because he/she has reached the climax, that is a form of greed betrayal. When a public worker who is paid for the work that he does, still collect in order to do the same work and be paid for it; that is a betrayal caused by greed (Dhuafa, 2024; Niranjan, 2024; Pulle, 2022).
Betrayal Caused by Being Power Drunk: This is a type of betrayal that is very common amongst politicians and royal families. Politics nowadays is mostly tagged as a “dirty game” because of the increasing use of deceits, lies, and even murder in politics! Politicians are the ones who make politics looks like being inherently “dirty game”. Increasing reports of corruption scandals under most governments as well as associated discrimination, both at the inter and intra parties’ level all account for the dirty politics tag. There are many examples that can be used to explain how politicians are making politics dirty globally (Alfa Shaban, 2024; Dlamini, 2025; Krishna, 2022).
Betrayal Due to Hatred/Envy/Jealousy: The story of Cain and Abel or many others in the Holy books are examples of betrayals that were committed out hatred/envy or jealousy. Cain was bitter because God accepted the offertory of his brother Abel, who nicely presented the fattest sheep from his flock; probably with a pure heart as offering. So, after betraying the love and trust of his brother who followed him out because of love and trust; he slewed him.
Figure 1: Flee Betrayal for a Peacefully Healthy Working Environment for Global Entrepreneurship.
Conclusion
For details on betrayal, wait for this article by the author: “Flee Betrayal or Hypocrisy, an Old Cyclic Canker, Through the Celebration of Religious Seasons”. Thank you for Reading!
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